James Cracknell, OBE (born 5 May 1972) is an English rowing champion and double Olympic gold medallist. He began rowing whilst attending Kingston Grammar School and rowed at the Junior World Championships in 1989 and 1990 — winning a gold medal in the latter. Moving into the senior squad, Cracknell had numerous World Championship appearances — but no medal wins. He qualified in the double scull for the 1996 Summer Olympics, but fell ill and was unable to race.

Sir Matthew Clive Pinsent CBE (born 10 October, 1970) is an English rowing champion, four-time Olympic gold medallist and broadcaster. Pinsent was born in Holt, Norfolk, and began rowing at Eton College. He began his international career at the Junior World Rowing Championships in 1987. He raced again in 1988, winning the junior coxless pairs with Tim Foster. After finishing school, Pinsent studied Geography at St Catherine's College, Oxford.

Steve Williams MBE (born April 15, 1976 in Warwick) is an English rower and Olympic champion. Williams started rowing aged 13 while at Monkton Combe School, Bath, and attended Oxford Brookes University to study History and Town planning. In 2000 he was part of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team that won the men's coxed four at the Rowing World Championships. The following year he was again world champion, this time in the coxless four, …

Steve Cummings (born 19 March 1981 in Wirral, Merseyside, United Kingdom) is a British racing cyclist who is also a highly experienced track cyclist in the team pursuit. In 2006 he rode for the Landbouwkrediet - Colnago team with his highlight 2nd in the Trofeo Laigueglia to Alessandro Ballan of Lampre-Fondital. In 2007 He will ride for the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team.

Bradley Wiggins, OBE (born April 28, 1980) is an English professional track and road bicycle racer. He won three medals on the track at the 2004 Summer Olympics. The son of a professional cyclist, Gary Wiggins, Bradley Wiggins was born in Ghent, Belgium but grew up in Maida Vale, London. Following in his father's footsteps, he started cycling at an early age, racing at south London's Herne Hill Velodrome aged 12. At the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics, …

Chris Hoy (born March 23, 1976 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish track cyclist and Olympic Games gold and silver medal winner. Prior to taking up track cycling, Hoy had raced BMX and competed at rowing for the Scottish junior team winning Silver in the 1993 British Championships with Grant Florence in the Coxless Pairs. Hoy went to school at George Watson's College, an independent school in Edinburgh. He continued his studies at the University of St Andrews in 1996, …

Godfrey Lionel Rampling (born May 14, 1909) is a former English athlete and army officer, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Born in London, Godfrey Rampling won the British AAA championships in 440 yd in 1931 and 1934. At the 1932 Summer Olympics, Rampling was fourth in his semifinal and didn't reached to the final, but helped, as an anchor, the British 4x400 m relay team to win a silver medal, behind the United States.

Shelley Rudman (born 23 March, 1981) is a British Olympic athlete. She won a silver medal at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in skeleton; the only medal for Great Britain at the games. She lives in Pewsey, Wiltshire, England. She took up the sport of skeleton after watching Briton Alex Coomber win a bronze medal at the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics. A year later in 2003, she was placed 10th in the World Junior Championships for skeleton.

Dame Mary Peters (born July 6, 1939) is a former British pentathlete. She won a gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Peters was born in Halewood,Lancashire but moved to Ballymena at age eleven. She now lives near Belfast. In the 1972 Summer Olympics she beat the local favourite, Heide Rosendahl. She was made an MBE in 1973, a CBE in 1990, and a DBE in 2000, the year in which Denise Lewis won gold in the women's multi-discipline event, now the heptathlon.

Francis Morgan Thompson, CBE (born July 30, 1958 in Worcester Park), known commonly as Daley Thompson, is a former decathlete from England. He won the decathlon gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and broke the world record for the event four times. Thompson is of Nigerian and Scottish heritage. Thompson's best score in the decathlon was 8847 points, set in the 1984 Olympic competition – a world record that stood until 1992, …

Linford Christie, OBE (born April 2, 1960) is a former athlete, and the only English man to win Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European 100 m gold medals. He still holds the UK record. Christie's track career was ended when he received a two-year ban for taking a performance-enhancing substance, although he has continually denied any wrongdoing.

Donald James Thompson MBE. In the 50 km race, staged at temperatures of up to 87°F, the front two competitors were disqualified, and Thompson beat the John Ljunggren of Sweden by 17 seconds to win the gold medal. He was only the second British man to win an Olympic athletics title after the Second World War. The only other British competitor to win a gold medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics was Anita Lonsbrough, in the 200 m breaststroke.

Sarah Hardcastle (born April 9, 1969) is an English former freestyle swimmer, who won a bronze and a silver medal as a fifteen-year old at the 1984 in Los Angeles, California. Twelve years later, she also competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. <br>

William "Bill" Roberts (April 5, 1912 - December 5, 2001) was a British athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Born in Salford, Lancashire, William Roberts won the British AAA championships in 440 yd in 1935 and 1937. At the 1934 British Empire Games, Roberts finished second in 440 yd behind Godfrey Rampling, but turned the silver into the gold medal in the next British Empire Games in 1938 in Sydney, Australia.

Frederick Ferdinand "Freddie" Wolff (October 13, 1910 - January 26, 1988) was a British athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Frederick Wolff won the British AAA championships in 440 yd in 1933. At the Berlin Olympics, Wolff ran the opening leg in the British 4x400 m relay team, which won the gold medal with a new European record of 3.09.0.

Ronald Rawson Rawson was a British heavyweight professional boxer He won a gold medal in Boxing at the 1920 Summer Olympics, defeating Danish boxer Søren Petersen in the final. He went to Westminster College in London Sept 1906 to July 1911 and then to Trinity College Cambridge matric.

Stanley Howard Shoveller is a former field hockey player, who won a gold medal with the England team at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. Eight years later, when Antwerp hosted the 1920 Summer Olympics, he once again captured the gold medal with the Great Britain and Ireland squad, at age 39. The Englishman is considered to be the first Olympic hero in field hockey. Known as the prince of centre forwards, he dominated England's convincing gold medal strolls.